Sure, it didn't help that many Penn State leaders seemed uninterested in standing up and fighting for their school. But that doesn't make it right for the NCAA to pounce on a university that went through such difficult times over the last year.

In normal NCAA cases when there is no doubt the organization is within its jurisdiction to act, it stumbles its way through months or years of investigation. But in an unprecedented case where the NCAA stepped into uncharted territory, the Emmert-led group handed down their sanctions in record time. Makes perfect sense, right?